31 Mar 2014 / Columbus Dispatch – Gabriel Coe’s speech quickens as he explains why he embraced Bitcoin. It’s a digital currency with no need for banks. There’s little regulation, he says. But his enthusiasm grew from a simpler benefit: It made him a lot of money.
Read more →31 Mar 2014 / Jerusalem Post – Israel’s first ATM for obtaining bitcoins debuted on Sunday evening at the Bitcoin emBassy, a non-profit group devoted to spreading the virtual currency’s gospel. The bitcoin ATM functions differently from those consumers are used to. Anyone who is interested in
Read more →28 Mar 2014 / CNBC – Prominent value investor Bill Miller on Thursday said he is investing in bitcoin. “The thing about bitcoin that is so interesting is the addressable market here,” said Miller, former chairman of Legg Mason Capital, on CNBC’s Closing Bell. “Gold alone has an $8 trillion market value, bitcoin has about a $7 billion market value, so if it’s only 10 percent as successful as gold you get 100 times your money.”
Read more →28 Mar 2014 / Recode – Online payments company Stripe will soon allow its customers, who use its payments tools to accept credit card purchases online, to accept bitcoin payments as well, its CEO told Re/code on Wednesday evening. Stripe believes it is the first major online
Read more →28 Mar 2014 / Bloomberg – Bitcoin isn’t just for buying and selling cupcakes and cameras anymore. A crop of entrepreneurs, backed by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and BitAngels, are betting that the technology behind the virtual currency can be used for a range of financial
Read more →27 Mar 2014 / The Australian – In a week in which the Reserve Bank has warned about unrealistic speculation in local housing, Forsyth Real Estate agency on Sydney’s north shore says it will accept bitcoin, through a partnership with Melbourne virtual exchange CoinJar.com. The 115-year-old agency
Read more →27 Mar 2014 / Marketwatch – Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist and former executive at Facebook Inc., has a lofty vision for bitcoin that doesn’t leave any room for the political ideals or anonymity that characterized its early stages. “Bitcoin, if it works, is a disruptive tool
Read more →26 Mar 2014 / Tech Crunch – The implosion of Mt. Gox is just every other Bitcoin exchange’s gain. Payward, which runs the alt-coin exchange Kraken, said it just raised a $5 million Series A round. Hummingbird Ventures, which is based out of Europe, led the round.
Read more →26 Mar 2014 / The New Yorker – When Zach and Josh Harvey opened a guitar store in Tel Aviv, in 2006, they only sold instruments made by musicians who viewed the pieces as works of art. To the brothers, who were twenty-six and thirty-two at the
Read more →26 Mar 2014 / BitCore Blog: Written by Ryan X. Charles- One of the greatest problems in bitcoin is security. Countless individuals and companies have lost their bitcoins due to compromised private keys. Multisignature transactions offer a solution to this problem. They just need to be user-friendly. That
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